Brian: Music from the Operas – review

BBC Scottish SO/Walker(Toccata)As well as his 32 symphonies, Havergal Brian wrote five operas, none of which has ever been staged. Three of them – the satire The Tigers (1919) to the composer's own libretto, The Cenci (1952) after Shelley, and the Aeschylus-based Agamemnon (1957) – have been heard in concert or studio performances, but only the Prologue to Brian's version of Goethe's Faust, from 1956, has been performed, and nothing at all of his 1951 Turandot, based, like Puccini's version,...

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